Weekly Report - 15 October 2026 (WR-26-41)

Costa Rica’s President Laura Fernández celebrated the inauguration of a new mega prison this week as fulfilment of her government’s promise to take uncompromising action against organised crime. All the more awkward for her administration, therefore, that the grand opening took place against the backdrop of a scandal embroiling the ruling Partido Pueblo Soberano (PPSO) linked to a drug trafficker and money launderer, arrested in an operation orchestrated by the US, who seems to have had friends in high political places.